The National tribune., 1887-02-10
RECENT LITERATURE.

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SOUVENIRS OF BY TIME. BY Jessie Benton
Fremont. Boston: ID. Lothrop & Co. Price
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Few American women have had the same
opportunities for making social studies in high
life as Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont. The daugh-
ter of one of the most distinguished statesmen
of our time and the wife of man for years no
less distinguished, bred in the innermost cir
Giles of Washington society, and personally ac-
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official or diplomatic life at the Capital, her
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LASTEvENING WITH ALI.STON, AND OTHER
PAPERS. BY Elizabeth Il. Peabody. Boston
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In this remarkably interesting and impor-
tant volume the venerable author has brought
together a series of papers and essays written
at intervals of her extended literary career.
Miss Peabody was an intimate friend Of the
famous American painter Allston, and saw
much of him in his later days. The two lead
ing papers Of the collection are devoted to
consideration of the life and genius Of the
lamented artist; third is a critical notice of
his paintings, written at the time of their ex-
hibition in Boston In 1889.
THE MONARCH OF DREAMS. By Col. Thomas
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so cents.
A charming little sketch of New England
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THE NATION IN A NUTSHELL BY George
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HOW SHALL MY CHILD BE TAUGHT? BY
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$50. Sold in Washington by A. s. Witherbee
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A collection of invaluable papers, full of
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YOUNG PEOPLES HISTORY OF IRELAND.
By George Makepeace Towle. Boston: Lee &
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In this volume the romantic story Of Ireland
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FOES OF HER HOUSEHOLD. By Amanda
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Ten excellent short stories from our best
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THE HUMANITY OF THE AMERICAN PRO-
TECTIVE TARIFF. a lecture delivered by
eonsin Legislature al Grand Army Hall. Rock
ford and other places. Published by Youmans
* Randall, waukeshs, Wis.
This very able effort, which should be read
by every one who desires to inform himself on
this great question.
NOTES.
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Price 80 cents; cloth, 81.
The National School Of Elocution and Ora
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OF choice dialogs for school aud social enter
tainments. Paper, 80 cents.
A very interesting paper on the Campaign
of 1864 in the Shenandoah Valley, read before
the 5th VT. and 1st VT. Cav, at their Reunion
in November last, by Col. III. E. Hill, of Boston,
has been published in pamphlet form.
The audubon Magazine, monthly magazine
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York. Price cents q copy, or so cents year
The Source Of the Mississppi.-This is a re-
publication by Ivison, Brakeman, Taylor * Co.
of articles which appeared in Science last De-
cember, concerning the source of the MiSsis-
sippi, and gives the history of an expedition
sent out by Messrs. Ivison, Brakeman, Taylor
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river and expose the fallacy of the claim of
Capt Willard Glazier to have discovered lake
which was more properly the head than Lake
Itasca.
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